Selected projects include:

• HealthierUS – HealthierUS is a Presidential goal to help Americans live longer, better, and healthier lives. It will identify and promote programs that foster healthy behaviors and prevention. Visit www.healthierus.gov/steps/.
  
  

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans - Published jointly with the U.S. Department of Agriculture every 5 years since 1980, this publication is the statutorily mandated basis for Federal nutrition education activities. Visit http://www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines/.
  
  

• Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans - Issued with the Office for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the President's Council on Physical Fitness in Sports, these science-based guidelines to help Americans incorporate physical activity into their daily lives are expected late in 2008.  These guidelines will incorporate the latest knowledge in physical activity and health and include in-depth information for all Americans, including special populations.
  
  

• Healthy People 2010 - Healthy People 2010 presents a comprehensive set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives developed to improve the health of all people in the United States during the first decade of the 21st century. Visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/.
  
  

• Healthy People 2010 Health Communication Focus Area - The six objectives in the focus area represent a range of key issues in health communication. They address the diffusion of the Internet to households, the quality of health web sites, health literacy, provider-patient communication, research and evaluation of communication programs, and Centers of Excellence in health communication.
  
  

• Healthy People 2020 - Healthy People 2020 will provide a set of national prevention goals to work as a framework for public health servants to work from during the second decade of the 21st century.
  
  

• healthfinder® - healthfinder® is a gateway Web site linking consumers and professionals to over 6,000 health information resources from the Federal Government and its many partners since 1997. Visit http://www.healthfinder.gov/.
  
  

• National Health Information Center (NHIC) - This Internet-accessible clearinghouse with a toll-free number provides a central health information referral service for consumers and professionals using a database of more than 1,700 national associations, government agencies, and other organizations. Visit http://www.health.gov/nhic or call 1-800-336-4797.
  
  

• National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) - The NHII encompasses information and communication technologies to advance personal health, population health, prevention, and health care. The goal is to ensure that all health decision makers, including consumers and patients, have the information they need, when and where they need it. The NHII provides the framework for public and private policies and programs. Visit http://ncvhs.hhs.gov/nhiilayo.pdf.
  
  

• National Prevention Summit – The 2007 National Prevention and Health Promotion Summit: Creating a Culture of Wellness will unite health professionals, business entrepreneurs, and government leaders at all levels who are dedicated to health promotion, chronic disease prevention, health preparedness, birth defects, disabilities, genomics, and wellness. The summit will take place in late November in Washington DC, and is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).